Theodore rex biography
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Theodore Rex
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A shining portrait of a presciently modern political genius maneuvering in a gilded age of wealth, optimism, excess and American global ascension.” - San Francisco Chronicle
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • “[Theodore Rex] is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adams’s volumes on Jefferson and Madison.” - Times Literary Supplement
Theodore Rex is the story - never fully told before - of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, , “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. Youngest of all our chief executives, he rallied a stricken nation with his superhuman energy, charm, and political skills. He proceeded to combat the problems of race and labor relations and trust control while making the Panama Canal possible and winning the Nobel
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Theodore Rex
Morris, Edmund
Random House, November Hardcover. Very Good / Good. Item #
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The most eagerly awaited presidential biography in years, Theodore Rex is a sequel to Edmund Morris's classic bestseller The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It begins bygd following the new President (still the youngest in American history) as he comes down from Mount Marcy, New York, to take his emergency oath of office in Buffalo, one hundred years ago.
A detailed prologue describes TR's assumption of power and journey to Washington, with the assassinated President McKinley riding behind him like a ghost of the nineteenth century. (Trains rumble throughout this irresistibly moving narrative, as TR crosses and recrosses the nation.) Traveling south through a efterträdelse eller följd of haunting landscapes, TR encounters harbingers of all the major issues of the new century-Imperialism, Industrialism, Conservation, Immigration, Labor, Race-plus the overall challenge that intimidated McKinley: how to
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My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies
&#;Theodore Rex&#; is the second volume in Edmund Morris&#;s highly acclaimed three-volume biography of Theodore Roosevelt. The series&#; inaugural volume debuted in but more than two decades elapsed before this second volume was published in Morris spent much of that time working on his now-infamous memoir of Ronald Reagan.
&#;Theodore Rex&#; conveniently picks up where &#;The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt&#; left off &#; with Vice President Roosevelt receiving word of President McKinley&#;s imminent death and his inheritance of the presidency.
The first forty pages cover his breathless dash from a remote cabin in the Adirondack Mountains to take the oath of office in Buffalo. The remainder of this biography covers his almost eight-year presidency in extensive and attentive &#; if not uniformly fascinating &#; depth.
Similar to its predecessor volume, &#;Theodore Rex&#; is unpretentious but erudite. It feels like a biography w